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Coffee Pulp Vermicomposting Treatment

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The concept of vermicomposting began with the knowledge that certain species of epigeic earthworms, which live in the litter and primarily feed on pure organic matter (Bouché, 1977; Lavelle, 1981, Abdul and Abdul, 1994) grow in and consume organic waste materials, converting them into an earth-like soil-building substance that forms a beneficial growing environment for plant roots. Thus, the practice of vermicomposting could be defined as the combination of biological processes, designs and techniques used to systematically and intensively culture large quantities of certain species of earthworms in order to speed up the stabilization of organic waste materials, which are eaten, ground and digested by the earthworms with the help of aerobic and some anaerobic microbiota, and thereby naturally converted into much finer, humidified, microbially active faecal material, where important plant nutrients are held in a form much more soluble and available to plants than those in the parent compound (Aranda et al., 1999). The end product, a decomposed faecal material (earthworm faeces, vermicompost or “castings”) consists of very finely structured, uniform, stable and aggregated particles of humidified organic material with excellent porosity, aeration and water holding capacity, rich in available nutrients, hormones, enzymes and microbial populations. Thus, this product is a valuable, marketable and superior plant growth media (Edwards and Bohlen, 1996).

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Aranda, E., Barois, I. (2000). Coffee Pulp Vermicomposting Treatment. In: Sera, T., Soccol, C.R., Pandey, A., Roussos, S. (eds) Coffee Biotechnology and Quality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1068-8_46

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